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The humanism of Dante
… between the Mediaeval and Classical attitudes. Dante's profound admiration for the ancient world is evident throughout his writings and goes far beyond anything which can be regarded as the general view of the Middle Ages. It is the task of this essay to examine the nature of this influence of …
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Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante
… of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy on Dante’s Commedia, arguing that the latter is a deliberate response to the former. The General Introduction sets the groundwork through a survey of the major scholarship on Dante and Boethius; the genre of the Consolation as understood through the …
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The ballad poetry of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
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The poetics of praeludere: Dante and Wordsworth
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Ecologies of Reading in Dante and Rilke
The thesis seeks to draw together Dante and Rilke’s poetry through the lens of environmental philosophy. Focusing on the non-human subjects that populate both poets’ works, it argues that for Dante and Rilke human existence is inherently relational. It is only by acknowledging our position as …
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Poetic Theology: Dante And The British Romantic Poets
This dissertation follows the figure of Dante as a vehicle to chart a new literary history of poetic theology that discovers the Romantic revival of the Renaissance ideal of the poet-theologian. The Italian humanist conception of the poeta theologus, which retroactively named a tradition …
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
Starting from the premise that Dante takes influence from the sermons and preaching culture of his time in his construction of a voice of authority, this dissertation tracks the poet's use of sermonic material and rhetoric, as well as more explicit discussions on preaching through his entire …
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Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante
"Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante" studies the reception of Ovid's writings in medieval Italian prose and poetry, from the first vernacular poems composed in Sicily to Dante's "Divina Commedia." Starting from the very beginnings of a new literary culture, I show how the increasing …
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Analyzing the Wien filters for the DANTE ion accelerator
… ions. Tandem electrostatic accelerators, such as DANTE, are able to produce ions at high energies that can be used to simulate these interactions. In order to enhance the quality of experimental data taken using an accelerator, it is useful to ensure that the particles being accelerated are of the …
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Plan de negocios para creación de empresa Cervecería Dante S.A.S.
… el plan de negocios para crear la empresa Dante S.A.S., con la misión de producir una cerveza artesanal para la gente de cultura globalizada, pero con su propia identidad. Este plan de negocios contiene el mercado, análisis operacional, organizacional y financiera necesaria para determinar …
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Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia
… thesis, I investigate the figure of Christ in Dante’s Commedia as the redemption of human relation, realized in and as the mystical body of Christ. If, as is claimed in the Paradiso, what it means to inhabit beatitude is so fully to practice justice and mercy as to be able to speak I and we …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
<p>Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) takes his readers on a pilgrimage through what he calls the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso (ostensibly Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, originally titled Commedia. This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those …
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
… considered evocative of religious sentiment. The Dante Sonata is such a composition. Except for a brief, early moment in the Dante Sonata, the score is void of scales and arpeggios--very basic pianistic musical gestures. The score instead comprises innovative harmonies, creative use of octaves, …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
This dissertation examines Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Renaissance during the 1860s. I argue that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his …
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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Using unpublished source material at Princeton University, the University of British Columbia, the British Library and the National Art Library in the V&A, this thesis aims to broaden current scholarly understanding regarding Rossetti's exposure to, interest in, and subsequent appropriation of …
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